Montréal-Nord


Montreal North is a borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city of Montréal-Nord on Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. It was amalgamated into the City of Montreal on January 1, 2002.
Around the start of the 21st century, Montréal-Nord developed a reputation of being one of Montreal's most dangerous boroughs, along with Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The area contains a sizable community living below the poverty line, though it also has middle-class and upper-middle-class residences.

Geography

The borough is an oblong municipal division situated along the Rivière des Prairies, in the northeastern part of the island.
It is bordered to the west by Ahuntsic-Cartierville, to the southwest by Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, to the south by Saint Leonard, at the southeast corner by Anjou, and to the east by Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles. The borough counts .
Major thoroughfares in Montréal-Nord include Saint-Michel Blvd., Pie IX Blvd., Lacordaire Blvd., Langelier Blvd., Léger Blvd., and Henri-Bourassa Blvd. The Pie IX Bridge connects Montréal-Nord to the Laval district of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.
It has an area of 11.07 km² and a population of 83,911.

Politics

Federal and provincial elections

The borough is located almost entirely in the federal riding of Bourassa, except for a tiny southeastern corner in Honoré-Mercier.
The provincial electoral district of Bourassa-Sauvé is coterminous with the borough except for a northwestern section in the electoral district of Maurice-Richard.

Demographics

LanguagePopulationPercentage
French48,26566%
English5,7358%
Other languages19,17026%

RacePopulationPercentage
Visible Minorities41,85551%
Black21,12026%
Arab9,01011%
Latin American5,8007%
Southeast Asian1,5802%
South Asian590<1%
Chinese580<1%
Other Visible minorities1,0751%

Government

Borough council

As of the November 5, 2017 Montreal municipal election, the current borough council consists of the following councillors:
DistrictPositionName Party
—Borough mayor
City councillor		Christine Black Ensemble Montréal
Marie-ClaracCity councillorAbdelhaq Sari Ensemble Montréal
Marie-ClaracBorough councillorJean Marc Poirier Ensemble Montréal
Ovide-ClermontCity councillorChantal Rossi Ensemble Montréal
Ovide-ClermontBorough councillorRenée-Chantal Belinga Ensemble Montréal
Ovide-ClermontBorough councillorRenée-Chantal Belinga Independent

Riot

For yet undisclosed reasons on August 9, 2008 officers of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal shot and killed Honduran immigrant Fredy Alberto Villanueva. This served to set off the tensions that had already been simmering in this multi-ethnic borough, and riots erupted the next evening, after an otherwise peaceful protest march in the afternoon. Rioters looted neighborhood stores, several cars and garbage cans were set on fire, one paramedic and two police officers were wounded and one female police officer shot. Firetrucks and firefighters arriving to put out the fires were then targeted by the rioters.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

The Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île operates French-language public schools. The secondary schools in the arrondissement are École secondaire Calixa-Lavallée and École Secondaire Henri-Bourassa. There is also the Le Prélude program. There are 14 Francophone primary schools in Montréal-Nord.
The English Montreal School Board operates Anglophone public schools:
Prior to 1998 it was in the Montreal Catholic School Commission and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, as at that time public schools were by religious denomination instead of on linguistic lines. In 1998 some schools in the eastern portion of CECM were transferred to the former area of Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer, which at that time became the territory of the CSPÎ.

Public libraries

The borough has four libraries of the Montreal Public Libraries Network: Belleville, Bibliothèque de la Maison culturelle et communautaire, Charleroi, and Henri-Bourassa.